The White Tower v8 new sun position

[Zairyn Arsyn]

first TG2 64 render. its great to finally have the the 64 bit version.

this render:
it was the year 4186, the Ahtal Tuul post-tribal federation was exploring the lands north of their jungle rainforest in the south, when they sighted this massive structure, which they would call it the "skyward spires" while other races whould just call it the white tower.

its true name is unknown, the creators of this massive tower vanished over a 1000 year ago.

[Zairyn Arsyn]

render 2- with a procedural grass population

[max_thehitman]

Looks groovy mate. Its like a spaced out "Alien" kind of spaceship has just landed, or some mysterious
object like that black square thing from 2010:A space Odyssey. Kind of makes the viewer wonder what
its all about. I personally like the weird looking tower-thingy in an Earth-like scenario. I will suggest to
not show too much of the ground part, just so to make the viewer wonder weather it might be a spaceship, or
a tower, or what-is-it (?!?!). It makes for a good conversation piece and its intriguing for the viewers to take a closer look
at the painted artwork.
I would like to also suggest to add more clouds and a sunset type of sky with deeper violet/blueish coloring to the scene.
Making the sky more dramatic and light up a bit, instead of being too dark in color. Just my idea.
Cool art and congrats on a cool scene. I enjoyed this one!

[Zairyn Arsyn]

first appearance/original thread: http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=11968.0


the tower is a self contained indoor city/defensive structure
some of the other users on here though it best to do animated version, and i'll point out that the camera node i'm using in TG2 has a motion path.
the animation would end at the base of tower, to get give you idea on how large this tower is.

probably once i have a second computer i will animate it, i would'nt want to do right now... it would take to long.

[Kadri]

All renders are very good Zaai999!
The last one shows the scale of the tower much more for me however .

[Zairyn Arsyn]

thank you both for the comments,

i am making some changes to clouds/atmosphere, i will post some renders when they are presentable,
i will also be posting a postworked version at some point (virtual darkroom/lensflare, other effects)

[Zairyn Arsyn]

horrible afternoon at work yesterday, did'nt have a computer for most of the afternoon, tech support had my computer.
my computer had a nasty bad case of spyware, windows XP security 2011 crap...

its off topic but,
the spyware came back on monday... they had to take my computer away for a little while, to get it wiped.
now temporarly using the scanner computer... it seems to have some driver issues & and more processes running in the background/taskbar...
but soon i should have my computer back, with windows 7, & more more ram.

on the other hand my home computer is still fine.

[Zairyn Arsyn]

(the mysterious and ancient white tower...)
new version with localized clouds.



C&C welcome.

[Henry Blewer]

I like the clouds and the light in this one.

[max_thehitman]

Yeah, the latest render looks great to me too. Love that sky coloring and the angle
of the image. Excellent!
Good show, Congrats!

[Zairyn Arsyn]

i agree, i was happiest with the light & atmosphere on that last render.

you probably cant tell, but i am using a crater shader, along with the power fractal.

the tower isn't actually fully complete, the base, or bottom will another structure, that will rest on the ground.

[inkydigit]

the last one is exceptional, i love it!

[Zairyn Arsyn]

scary? 
Post-work without the use of GIMP or Photoshop - Ektachrome color-reversal film fliter, advanced lens flare, all done with LW 3d

SO Wonderful 

Can you mention the history of this tower, and where is it?

yes, it's located on a fictional planet called Sloughwhen.
it was built by a race of humanoids known the Ino, they disappeared over 1500years ago from when this render was taken

i will go deeper into it's history later, a long with other info about it.

[Henry Blewer]

The lensflare works well with the weird postwork image. Nice work.

[Zairyn Arsyn]

lightwave 3D's virtual darkroom filter has so many possibilities, too bad there aren't any good tutorials online.